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CELL HOST & MICROBE
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 404-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.02.004
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- NIH [F30-DK107199, T32-GM63483, R21-AI123089, R21-AI128932, DP1-AI131080, P30-DK078392]
- HHMI Faculty Scholar's program
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award
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Mucosal barriers are densely colonized by pathobiont microbes such as Candida albicans, capable of invasive disseminated infection. However, systemic infections occur infrequently in healthy individuals, suggesting that pathobiont commensalism may elicit host benefits. We show that intestinal colonization with C. albicans drives systemic expansion of fungal-specific Th17 CD4(+) T cells and IL-17 responsiveness by circulating neutrophils, which synergistically protect against C. albicans invasive infection. Protection conferred by commensal C. albicans requires persistent fungal colonization and extends to other extracellular invasive pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus. However, commensal C. albicans does not protect against intracellular influenza virus infection and exacerbates allergic airway inflammation susceptibility, indicating that positively calibrating systemic Th17 responses is not uniformly beneficial. Thus, systemic Th17 inflammation driven by CD4(+) T cells responsive to tonic stimulation by commensal C. albicans improves host defense against extracellular pathogens, but with potentially harmful immunological consequences.
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